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LucasArts has made plans to fire close to 100 more employees and to shut down internal development after it has shipped off Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. A source says that the company will be adding to the 75-100 employees that were fired last week and will return to outsourcing many of their projects to other studios.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was the first internally developed title since they released the Republic Commando in 2005. They were going to use it to mark the return to producing games within their own home – but that plan seemed to have backfired.

EA has put a stop to all production for the PS3 version of Red Alert 3. They will be focusing all of their attention on the PC and Xbox 360 versions to make sure that they are released on schedule.

 “We can confirm that the development of Red Alert 3 for PS3 has been put on hold. EALA is focusing resources on development for PC and Xbox 360 which will ship simultaneously this autumn,” said EA PR manager Jonathan Goddard.

A game based on the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series will be coming out on the Nintendo DS and Wii. ‘Rebel Scum’ – a Star Wars fan site – released the information and stated that the ad is in the manual for the up and coming Lego Indiana Jones game.

The game is said to be released this fall. The animated series is a storyline that is between Episodes I and II. A theatrical trailer will be released for the game on August 15th.